Ohio University is the No. 1 Party School, According to the Princeton Review

The Princeton Review has released its list of the Top 20 party schools in the country and displacing Georgia in the top spot this year is Ohio University. The complete list is the below, and to nobody’s surprise, BYU won the sober school award for the 14th year in a row. Why makes Ohio University such a rabid party school?

Ohio University’s party reputation has long vexed administrators at the riverside school of about 20,000 students, and policies have been beefed up over the years in an attempt to reduce student drinking.

In formal complaints regarding violations of Ohio’s student code of conduct, about 60 percent are listed as alcohol-related in recent academic years, according to statistics posted online by the University Judiciaries, the school’s disciplinary division. In 2010-2011, 1,213 complaints, making up 59 percent of the total, involved alcohol, the numbers show.

The Halloween revelry dates to the 1970s and typically attracts at least 20,000 people to downtown Athens streets. Arrests and citations during the party, mostly for alcohol and disorderly conduct violations, have at times reached more than 200 in recent years.

The event spun out of control in 2003, when then-Athens Police Chief Rick Mayer called the bash “the worst event to date” after rioting partiers lit couches on fire, started fights and threw bottles at officers and firefighters.

Any males single and under 30 (35?) should probably put Ohio University on the list of September/October road trips.

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http://spartyandfriends.com/ mizerle06 asks for the autoplay to be turned off

just like Georgia to fail to live up to its ranking.

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Even I think Iowa is ranked awfully high. Especially for a dry campus.

Broccoli Beef

Wait, why couldn’t we get a bigger version of the tease pic in here??

jacksos210

That tease photo is the greatest photo in the history of the internet. It’s been around for a while. How about a where are they now feature on those two?

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11. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

No way. Have these people actually been to the land of cornfields and gangs? Madison is a MUCH bigger party school than Illinois.

http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

athens has some killer “[this] calling the kettle black.”

Broccoli Beef

Any males single and under 30 (35?) should probably put Ohio University on the list of September/October road trips.

I don’t think so. I’d still take the talent at other schools over waht’s supposedly in Ohio. Just because there are more alcohol related citations, doesn’t mean it’s more fun to party there. I’d still prefer to go where there is more sunshine and hotness, and less clothes.

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University of Spoiled Children is also conspicuously absent from here. Princeton Review is usually pretty good on these things but this list seems awfully strange.

Menarky Party

i will never understand how iowa is a top party school. how the hell can it be?

http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

I don’t think so. I’d still take the talent at other schools over waht’s supposedly in Ohio. Just because there are more alcohol related citations, doesn’t mean it’s more fun to party there. I’d still prefer to go where there is more sunshine and hotness, and less clothes.

it’s true. OU’s nice and all, but southern schools blow it away.

athens is a really fun time if you’re into alternative methods of inebriation but other than that, it’s nothing extraordinary.

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17. Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.

Looks like I am going to have to go get some coeds trashed this week. Can’t be falling that low ASU.

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Menarky – 67 bars in a 4 block radius. And this. The ranking should have dropped in recent years though. When I was a freshman in 2002, the law was 18 to party, 21 to drink. So at 18, you could get in the bars. They just passed a 21 ordinance this year.

ms621

SMU still hasn’t cracked the top 20 after reaching #17 11 years ago. Sad.